Definition of: Zionism

(zī′ən·iz′əm) noun
A movement for a resettlement of the Jews in Palestine. The form which lays stress upon the political questions involved is sometimes called political Zionism, and the term religious Zionism is used by those Zionists who lay a special stress upon the regeneration of the Holy Land as a center of social and religious influence for Judaism. Also Zion movement.
—Zi′on·ist adjective & noun
—Zi′on·is′tic adjective
—Zi′on·ite noun